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They come with caravans of all shapes and sizes for Mildura's annual country music festival. There are so many country music fans that the town's caravan parks quickly fill and the spill over sets up camp at the showgrounds. Caravans, campervans, tents and converted buses line the showgrounds for ...

Noel McDonald, from Casterton in western Victoria, converted a mini bus into a mobile home, which he brought to Mildura for the city's country music festival. He brought his dog Milly along to entertain his fellow campers...

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Cuba is just another province of Africa So says Omar Sosa's band when they describe the complicated Afro-Cuban rhythms at the root of their music. It all goes back to Africa says Omar Sosa who's in to demonstrate the complexity of clave, timba and son and we get a bonus vocal and clapping masterclass ...

had a successful rock and roll career until the Balkans War in the 1990s; much of his music since then is about the time before when Christians, Muslims and Jews peacefully co-existed. He talks about how his latest album Three Letters from Sarajevois a kind of musical homage to what was, what is and ...

That most wide-ranging of historians Sir Simon Schama talks about the Jewish composers and lyricists who shaped the American popular song, Berlioz's orchestration of 'La Marseillaise', Herodotus, Thucydides and Tom Waits (among other things). Simon Schama is a guest of the l - see his ...

Sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby spent their childhoods at folk festivals and played in their family's touring band. The love of folk music continued into adulthood and the duo now perform and record as . They're about to release their fourth album and embark on a massive tour around Australia. ...

"It's not country enough, call Jerry Douglas" specialises in resonator Dobro and lap-steel guitars. His list of collaborators is long and impressive; from Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton to Paul Simon and Alison Krauss. But he's a legend in his own right, having cultivated an endless range of ...